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flounced

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flounce 1  (flouns)
n.
A strip of decorative, usually gathered or pleated material attached by one edge, as on a garment or curtain.
tr.v. flounced, flounc·ing, flounc·es
To trim with a strip or strips of gathered or pleated material.
[Alteration of frounce, from Middle English, pleat, from Old French fronce, of Germanic origin; see sker-2 in Indo-European roots.]
flounce 2  (flouns)
intr.v. flounced, flounc·ing, flounc·es
1.
a. To move in a lively or bouncy manner: The children flounced around the room in their costumes.
b. To move with exaggerated or affected motions: flounced petulantly out of the house.
2. To move clumsily; flounder.
n.
The act or motion of flouncing.
[Possibly of Scandinavian origin.]
Translations
flounced [flaʊnst] ADJ [dress] → guarnecido con volantes
flounced
adj skirt, dress → mit Volants or Rüschen besetzt


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And Tom flounced over, untucking and disarranging everything, in a manner frightful to behold.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
Hardly, however, had the old lady begun about her " highly gratified feelings," and so on, when Nastasia left her, and flounced into a chair by Gania's side in the corner by the window, and cried: "Where's your study?
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Here is one whom you know,' said Mrs Crummles, thrusting forward the Phenomenon in a blue gauze frock, extensively flounced, and trousers of the same; 'and here another--and another,' presenting the Master Crummleses.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
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